+Support for newer Intel and ATI chipsets is present in the system. This may not work for every hardware combination, but a number of users have reported success with hardware-accelerated video using this update.

+

+

+## Availability

+

+64-bit (x86_64) installations are recommended. The 32-bit (i386) version is only for very old hardware that can't handle 64-bit. Each version is available as:

+

+* An ISO, to be burned to a physical CD or used as an image to install a virtual machine.

+* A bootable USB disk-key image. (minimum 2G USB stick needed)

+

+The release ISO images should be available on most of the [[mirrors|mirrors]]. If the ISO is not available on a certain mirror, please try another one or download it from the DragonFly master site. Each image is in the "Live CD" format, meaning that it boots into a running and fully functional DragonFly system, which can be used for testing or system recovery tasks as well as installation. Check the [hardware page](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/supportedhardware/) or boot a Live CD to check for compatibility.

+

+"GUI" images with a desktop are not ready at release time.

+

+### MD5 sums

+

+MD5 sums for the compressed images:

+

+

+MD5 sums for the uncompressed images:

+

+

+### dports packages

+

+Packages for [[dports|docs/howtos/HowToDPorts]] on DragonFly 3.8 are available, for 64 bit platforms. The 'pkg' command will automatically access the main dports repository for DragonFly. Modify /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf if you want to change this and select a different mirror.

+

+If you have pkgsrc packages installed, move or rename /usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg before installing from dports. Dump databases before starting this process. Use 'pkg search' to verify the existence of your needed packages before moving the existing pkgsrc files away, and 'pkg install' to add them.

+

+If you need specific build options for dports packages that aren't on by default, you will need to build your own versions of the software. Download the dports src repository with 'make dports-create' in the /usr directory, and build from there.

+

+See the [[docs/howtos/HowToDPorts]] page for more details on using and maintaining dports.

+

+## DragonFly 3.6 Special Installation and Upgrade Notes

+

+This is the most important part of this page.

+

+* HAMMER installations should be over 50G in size to accomodate filesystem history. Otherwise, use UFS.

+* The boot loader may need manual intervention (hit ?) if you are using Virtual PC, since Virtual PC does not supply disk serial numbers.

+* Qemu users can boot with ACPI disabled or with hw.ioapic_enable=0 in /boot/loader.conf, to reduce console error message.

+* xorg may require a config file on i386 DragonFly, under VMWare.

+* The installer can only encrypt the root and swap volumes.

+

+## DragonFly 3.6.0 Release Notes

+

+For a list of per-commit changes, see the [3.8.0rc tag commit](http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-May/270103.html) and the [3.8.0 tag commit](TBD).

+

+> ### Kernel changes

+

+

+> ### Hardware changes

+

+

+> ### Network changes

+

+

+

+

+> ### HAMMER2

+

+* HAMMER2 is in the system but not ready for use. Development of HAMMER2 is ongoing in DragonFly 3.9.